Tuesday, October 20, 2009

WE'VE GOT ICE: "There have been 1,251 postseason games in baseball history," writes Jayson Stark this morning. "Only two others -- two -- ever ended this way, with a walk-off extra-base hit by a team that was one out away from losing."
Now here came one last pitch -- at 98.8 miles per hour. According to data compiled by Inside Edge, it was the hardest pitch anyone had thrown to Jimmy Rollins THIS ENTIRE SEASON.

"It was funny," Rollins recalled of the moment before that pitch left Broxton's hand. "Right before he threw it, I said (to himself), 'Hit a ball in the right-center-field gap . . . right over Broxton's head. That's at least one run.' "

And then it happened ... precisely ... like ... that.

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